St Mary

Clydach, West Glamorgan

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St Mary
Clydach
West Glamorgan
SA6 5LF

St Mary’s, Clydach offers one of the most imposing, and architecturally accomplished churches in South Wales. St Mary's church is a particularly elaborate early 20th century (1904-05) church, built in the Gothic style. The church was built as the population of Clydach grew with the success of its industries, notably tinplate. It was designed by E M Bruce Vaughan FRIBA of Sawnsea. Bruce Vaughan was an architect working across industrial South Wales in a free Gothic style, after the school of the nationally renowned architect G F Bodley. The church is of importance today because of the quality, inventiveness and consistency of its detailing and construction; its lofty scale; the quality of its stained glass; remarkable reredos, and other later additions; the fact that it is (to date) largely unaltered; and the strong and poignant record it holds for the community of Clydach.

  • Church in Wales

  • Repair Grant, £10,000, 2015

  • Our Repair Grants funded urgent repair work to help keep churches open.

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